Roll-holder



Patented Jan. 12, 1937 PATENT OFFICE ROLL-HOLDER Ernest du Pont Meyrowitz, South Orange, N. J.,

assignor to Selected Devices Company, Incorporated, a corporation of New York Application October 26, 1935, Serial No. 46,872

3 Claims.

The invention herein disclosed relates to a device for holding and dispensing the paper from a roll of memorandum paper and in particular to a device of this kind that is adapted to be attached to a table.

An object of the invention is to provide a device of this kind that may be readily attached to and removed from a table or the like, another object of the invention is to construct the device such that when attached to a table it is firmly held in place, and a further object is to construct the device such that it is comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective of a device embodying the invention and illustrated as applied to a table;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same along the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section along the lines 33 of Fig. 2.

The roll-holder illustrated in the drawing is shown as holding a roll of paper on which has been printed at intervals oblong boxes headed we and they. The roll is especially printed for the purpose of keeping score when playing bridge. The roll-holder consists of a single piece of sheet metal which is bent to form a straight, flat, narrow section I that lies along the surface of a table 2. At the free end of the section I, there is provided lateral ears 3 in which is journaled an eccentric clamp 4 which when in the position shown clamps the paper to the section I and when swung about its pivots releases the paper so that the paper may be drawn through the clamp. Intermediate the ends of the section I, there is provided a tongue 5 that is bent over to lie parallel to the surface of the section I When, as shown in Fig. 1, the words we and they are close to the clamp 4, the tongue 5 is approximately at the longitudinal center of the boxes over which the words we and they are printed. The tongue 5 thus serves to hold the paper to the section I and in addition forms a dividing line above which the score may be recorded and below which the honors may be recorded.

On the end of the section I and opposite to that to which the clamp 4 is secured, the sheet metal of which the roll-holder is made is bent to form a hook-shaped section 6 having a portion Ba that lies along the vertical edge of the table and a section 61) that extends over the roll of paper I that is held by the roll-holder. On the side edges of the section 6a there are formed tongues that are bent to lie parallel to the surface of the section 6a and act to retain and guide the paper along this portion of the rollholder.

In the section 61), which constitutes the portion that holds the roll of paper, there is provided a resilient tongue 8 which is formed. by cutting into the metal. This tongue is curved as shown in Fig. 2 and acts against the lower edge of the bead 2a of the table to firmly hold the device in place. At the opposite edges of the section 6b there are formed two depending arms 9, one from each of the two opposite edges of the section 6b. Adjacent the free ends of these arms, there are formed detents 9a which extend into the opening in the core Ia upon which the roll of paper I is wound. The core of the roll of paper is rotatable on these detents.

The core on which the paper is wound is made slightly longer than the width of the roll or web of paper so that on either side of the paper the core extends beyond the edge of the roll about one-sixteenth of an inch. The arms 9 are resilient and serve to frictionally engage the ends of the core on which the paper is wound and thus maintain the paper under tension so that it lies fiat along the several sections of the device.

It will be apparent that this roll-holder can be easily and readily attached and detached from a table, that when in position on a table it is held firmly in place and provides a convenient memoranda tablet. When one portion of the paper has been used, the clamp 4 may be raised and the paper drawn through the clamp until another section is in place.

It will be obvious that various changes may be made by those skilled. in the art in the details of the embodiment illustrated in the drawing and described above within the principle and scope of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

I claim:

I. As an article of manufacture, a roll-holder adapted to be fixed to a table and constructed from a single piece of sheet metal comprising a straight, fiat, narrow section adapted to lie along the surface of the table, a hook-shaped section adapted to extend around and under the edge of the table, a resilient arm extending from the hook-shaped section for engaging the under side of the bead of the table, and spaced arms extending laterally from the hook-shaped section and forming holders for a roll of paper.

2. As an article of manufacture, a roll-holder adapted to be fixed to a. table and constructed from a single piece of sheet metal comprising a straight, fiat, narrow section adapted to lie along the surface of the table, a hook-shaped section adapted to extend around and under the edge of the table, a resilient arm extending from the hook-shaped section for engaging" the'under side of the bead of the table, and spaced resilient arms extending laterally from the hookshaped section for frictionally engaging the core;

of a roll of paper.

3. As an article of manufacture, a roll-holder adapted to be fixed to a table and comprising a straight, fiat, narrow section adapted to lie along the surface of the table, an eccentric clamp secured at one end of the section for clamping a sheet thereto, a hook-shaped section formed on the opposite end and shaped to extend around and under the edge of the table, a resilient arm extending from the hook-shaped section for engaging the under side of the bead of the table,

and spaced, resilient arms extending laterally from the hook-shaped section for frictionally engaging the core of a. roll of paper.

ERNEST DU PONT NIEYROWITZ. 

